portraits

spako · May 29, 2006

What do you think of these portraits.. I took them at night without a flash...(tried to use the light coming from the torches that were lit in the street..)

I have a few versions of the first shot...

tell me what you think and how i could improve them!

thank you for looking!

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4.

spako · Jun 1, 2006

are they really that bad

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hyp0rbyte · Jun 1, 2006

Maybe posting the original shot OTE (okay to edit) would help.

#2/#3 have a lot of noise.

I'm not sure about #1. Parts of his face look too hot.

#4 may work if you brighten it some with a tighter crop?

Peateater · Jun 1, 2006

No. 1 looks like a great portrait! Though I also kinda like the less colorful number 2 better. Which was the original color? Between 2 and 3, I'd just go with whatever way he was facing when you took the picture.

Peter

spako · Jun 5, 2006

I desaturated this shot and added some noise to make it look a bit more like a painting... I was told that this picture had some kind of rembrandt feel to it..

just look at the self portrait here to get an idea...

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arttoheartweb.com/images/Rembrandt_self_portrait.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arttoheartweb.com/winslow_homer_boys,_rembrandt_self_portrait.htm&h=429&w=338&sz=24&tbnid=5iqZQ0xyadZZzM:&tbnh=123&tbnw=96&hl=en&start=68&prev=/images%3Fq%3Drembrandt%26start%3D60%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-32,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN

LaFoto · Jun 5, 2006

Hey, these compared to the Rembrandt-painting, I should say that Photo 3 covers it best, and actually I quite like the grain/noise in that one. Shows that you were working with very little light only and applying some sort of chiaroscura technique.
You do have some very hot spots in your first photo here, and I don't quite like the light-shadow distribution in that photo as much, either, as I do in Photo 3.

And hey, I do like the overall feel and atmosphere of the last!
When was this, what happened, why the torches?
End of the Tour de Luxembourg?

(Oh, and by the way: I am only finding these now... have never seen them before, sorry.)

spako · Jun 5, 2006

Thank you!

These shots were also taken at the parade for the 100th birthday of Esch/Alzette (my hometown). I posted some more shots of this parade and a short explanation here http://www.thephotoforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50672

Thank you for the comment!!